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Just some notes before today's episode. Raminta and I just finished some marathon recording sessions in the last three weeks and we recorded 62 episodes – 22 of them are exam episodes.

About two weeks ago at a party some Lithuanian friends of ours did some interviews with Raminta. In the interviews Raminta asked them about four questions. - who is happier in life, men or women? - it's difficult for couples to get along well, what do you think is important for couples to get on well? - what three things do you think are most important in a mate? - what are white crows? In Lithuanian, white crows are people who are different. Of course, crows are black, so a white crow would stand out in a crowd.

Raminta and I plan to create episodes out of these interviews and break them down for you. Here's a sample of one recording, but without a translation. We'll do a translation for you in the future. While you're listening to the recording keep in mind it's at a party. Raminta is outside on the back porch but you can still hear music in the background. Also, there's a pond nearby and the frogs are loud, but the audio is good.

(Lithuanian conversation about white crows)

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Hi there, I'm Jack and I'm Raminta and welcome back to Lithuanian Out Loud where we offer the world the Lithuanian language. Today we're in the month of June which in Lithuanian is birželis.

According to the article, "Lithuanian Mythology" written by Gintaras Beresnevičius of the Lithuanian Institute of Culture and Arts, Sovijus kills a magnificent wild boar.

Sovijus gets very angry when his nine sons eat the nine spleens of the boar. Sovijus goes to the afterworld in a fit of anger and enters through the ninth gate. In the afterworld one of his sons causes him to sleep and he buries Sovijus in the ground. Sovijus spends a terrible night trying to sleep complaining he was being eaten by slugs and reptiles all night. On the second night Sovijus is put in a tree but all night long he's bitten and stung by insects. On the third night Sovijus is thrown into a fire and the next morning he reports he slept as sweetly as a baby in a cradle. Starting with that night, Sovijus becomes the master of the dead and he's responsible for taking the dead into the afterworld.

Following the example of Sovijus and his first two nights of attempted sleep, it was obvious that the dead were happier being cremated. This explains the Baltic tradition of cremation prior to the arrival of Christianity. Something else you can see about Baltic tradition in this story is the belief that numbers divisible by three are considered to have magical properties.

pradėkime, let's get started

We need to get caught up on some verbs. The good news is that most Lithuanian verbs are regular. Very few are irregular.

In episodes 0050 and 0051 we introduced the accusative case or galininkas, if you need a review, just go back and listen again. You have to use the accusative case when an object is receiving the direct action of a verb such as, "I eat the food" or "he drives the car."

The food, which is the object here, is being eaten, the food is the noun receiving the direct action of the verb – to eat. The food is being eaten.

He drives the car. The car, which is the object here, is being driven. The car is the noun that's receiving the direct action of the verb, to drive. The car is being driven.

To get technical, these are examples of transitive verbs. When using a transitive verb the object receives the action of the subject. Valdas eats the food. The object, food, receives the action of the verb – to eat. So, the object - the food, is declined using the accusative case.

Intransitive verbs don't require the accusative case. Here are some examples where the accusative isn't necessary...

I am Lithuanian aš esu lietuvis

I like the house man patinka namas

my name is Sonata mano vardas yra Sonata

The accusative is very common in Lithuanian and you'll see it a lot in this series.

Today we'll work on the verb turėti – to have. Such as, "I have a car." The car is the object which is receiving the action of the verb – to have. The verb turėti uses the accusative case. To create a sentence all you have to do is conjugate the verb turėti and then decline the noun using galininkas. Some say Lithuanian is challenging – could be! :)

First, let's conjugate the verb turėti, prašom pakartoti, please repeat…

I have aš turiu

you have (tu) tu turi

he has jis turi

she has ji turi

we have mes turime

you have (jūs) jūs turite

you all have jūs turite

they have (male or male/female group) jie turi

they have (females only) jos turi

vocabulary – žodynas

an idea idėja

a passport pasas

a question klausimas

a problem problema

a wife žmona

a husband vyras

a female friend draugė

a male friend draugas

to work dirbti

to dance šokti

Alright, now let's use turėti in some sentences...

I have a wife aš turiu žmoną

I have a question aš turiu klausimą

do you have a car? (tu) ar tu turi automobilį?

do you have a passport? (tu) ar tu turi pasą?

he has a problem jis turi problemą

he has a female friend jis turi draugę

she has a male friend ji turi draugą

she has a husband ji turi vyrą

we have an idea! mes turime idėją!

we have a good friend mes turime bičiulį

do you have a passport? ar jūs turite pasą?

do you have a wife? ar turite žmoną?

do you all have a car? ar jūs turite automobilį?

do you all have a question? ar turite klausimą?

they have a problem jie turi problemą

they have a house jie turi namą

do they have a question? ar jos turi klausimą?

they have an idea jos turi idėją

The verb turėti can be combined with an infinitive verb. For example, I have to go, she has to work, or, they have to study. Just conjugate the verb turėti, then add the infinitive verb. prašom pakartoti, please repeat...

I have to go aš turiu eiti

you have to study turite studijuoti

she has to work ji turi dirbti

I have to run aš turiu bėgti

they have to study jie turi studijuoti

you have to sleep turi miegoti

I have to eat aš turiu valgyti

Now, just to give you a headache, let's make it a little more complicated...

do you have to go to Klaipėda? ar jūs turite važiuoti į Klaipėdą?

he has to read the book jis turi skaityti knygą

I have to wait aš turiu palaukti

we have to go (to) downtown mes turime važiuoti į miesto centrą

do they have to wait in the airport? ar jos turi palaukti oro uoste?

There are a lot of new verbs on this episode. In the future we plan to do an entire episode for each new verb.

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LITHUANIAN MYTHOLOGY by GINTARAS BERESNEVIČIUS http://www.crvp.org/book/Series04/IVA-17/chapter_iv.htm

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